By Cheri Mossburg | CNN Los Angeles — Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row, Los Angeles county sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Cathy Small’s body was found February 22, 1986, when South … Read more
The Bay Area News Group interviewed several families whose relatives were killed by condemned men convicted in Santa Clara County who in the next few weeks are scheduled to be resentenced from death row to lifetime prison terms, as part of an initiative by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. Here are more of … Read more
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Chad Daybell was sentenced to death Saturday for the murders of his wife and his girlfriend’s two youngest children in Idaho. The sentence was handed down after an Idaho jury unanimously agreed that imposing the death penalty would be a just resolution to the triple-murder case. The sentence marks the end … Read more
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri death row prisoner who is due to be executed next month has been hospitalized because of a “medical emergency,” a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Corrections said. David Hosier, 69, is scheduled to be put to death June 11 for killing a Jefferson City couple, Angela and Rodney … Read more
A recent surprise ruling throwing out criminal charges against the purported founder of a Southern California-based white supremacist group over concerns that prosecutors didn’t pursue similar cases against left-wing Antifa members has brought widespread attention to a veteran federal judge with a reputation for never shying away from tough decisions. After U.S. District Judge Cormac … Read more
Thomas Eugene Creech, the 73-year-old Idaho serial killer and suspect in a 1974 San Bernardino County slaying who was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Wednesday, Feb. 28, was returned to his cell after his executioners could not find a suitable vein. Josh Tewalt, Idaho Department of Correction’s director, said at a news conference … Read more
Idaho’s longest-serving death row inmate, Thomas Creech, evaded execution on Wednesday because executioners were unable to establish an IV for the lethal injection procedure, according to the Idaho Department of Corrections. His attorneys, advocates, the judge who sentenced him to death and the attorney who prosecuted him have all called for his life to be … Read more
On Monday, the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office provided a notice in court of its intention not to seek the death penalty in the Davis stabbing case against Carlos Dominguez. Dominguez, a former UC Davis student is accused of killing two people and injuring a third in a string of stabbings in Davis that begin … Read more
Ohio lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow the state to execute people using nitrogen gas. The legislation, introduced by state Reps. Brian Stewart (R) and Phil Plummer (R) and backed by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R), “is aimed at kickstarting the state’s stalled capital-punishment system,” Yost’s office said in a press release. … Read more
By Mari Yamaguchi | Associated Press TOKYO — A Japanese court sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of murder and other crimes Thursday for carrying out an arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto that killed 36 people. The Kyoto District Court said it found the defendant, Shinji Aoba, mentally capable … Read more